Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a compa
ny with a great t-shirt is a prime candidate to have a great product also. Click here to see the series.
If you’d like your t-shirt reviewed, flick me an email to arrange things. The judges decision is, of course, final and very little correspondence will be entered into (perhaps).
I’ve always felt indebted to sliderocket. Months ago when writing a review of their product I made the journalist’s cardinal sin, transposing the name of one of their competitors within the article I wrote. Sliderocket CEO Chuck Dietrich was a remarkably good sport about my mistake, although going out for a run with him in San Francisco a few months ago I couldn’t help but think that some of the awesome pace he showed was by way of retribution 
Despite some reservations initially, I love the sliderocket product, and their initial foray into the t-shirt arena shows a similar cool, understated elegance.
Hot
- All g33ks have an interest in space travel. Show your pride and wear a rocket on your chest (and back)
- Grey is a good color for a freebie t-shirt
- Keeping it simple is good – minimal text, minimal garishness and good design smarts
- 100% cotton
Not
- Haiti? Haiti? Don’t they drink reactor water there?
- Every time I wear it I’m reminded about my mistake – I’ll get over it one day
I like to run half-marathons – not for the running but just for the swag.
Nice comment Geraldine!
Ben, thanks for the review. heading out for a run now to keep prep’d for your next visit!
Chuck – no sweat – I’ve got old and fat since our last run so not sure what sort of company I’ll be this time. Maybe a nice jaunt somewhere in SJ during CloudConnect?